Summary
Scott Beardsley is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Menlo Park with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale websites, CDNs, and high-performance computing clusters. At Pinterest he progressed from Traffic Engineer to Senior Engineering Manager, driving reliability, scalability, and edge performance for high-traffic systems. He combines deep hands-on skills in Linux, HPC, Python, C, Perl and Traffic Server with a practical focus on documentation, availability, and operational excellence. Scott’s background includes performance and service engineering at Yahoo! and senior DevOps work at Instart Logic, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and people leadership. Outside work he’s sustained long-term community involvement—helping run a bike collective and maintaining its site—illustrating a commitment to practical problem solving and volunteer-driven projects.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento